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Zainab Salbi | Top 100 womenhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/08/zainab-salbi-women
Iraqi American CEO and founder of Women for Women International<p>In 1993, Zainab Salbi heard about the rape camps being operated in Bosnia and Croatia so she and her new husband used her savings to fly out to help.</p><p>Salbi had grown up in luxury as the daughter of the personal pilot of Saddam Hussein - who she was forced to call &quot;Uncle&quot;, and spend every weekend with. She learnt with growing horror of the atrocities he was committing and left Iraq after her mother, worried for her safety, insisted she have an arranged marriage to an <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/27/LV22520.DTL&amp;ao=2" title="Iraqi American when she was just 19">Iraqi American when she was just 19</a>. After her husband attacked her she fled. With her second husband, Palestinian-American Amjad Atallah, she travelled to the wartorn Balkans, marking the start of Women for Women International – an organisation which has since supported 299,000 war survivors in eight countries. It provides not just financial help, training and education but emotional support through &quot;sister&quot; sponsors. </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/08/zainab-salbi-women">Continue reading...</a>IraqWomenTue, 08 Mar 2011 00:05:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/08/zainab-salbi-womenHoma Khaleeli2011-03-08T00:05:00Z